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Tirpitz and fifth destroyer flotilla (Ihn, Schoemann and Z 25)
venture towards Bear island 6th to 9th march 1942
9 th march 0800 clear view, cloud cover decreases
contact holder aircraft detected no aircraft cover for Tirpitz available
full ahead to the Vestfjord (distance about 50 nautical miles)
one reconnaissance plane started
only one destroyer(Ihn) available as AA cover

at around 0930 detection of about 20 torpedo carrying aircraft heading towards Tirpitz by recon plane
From 1015 - 1024 repeated approaches of several swarms of aircraft (three to six each) total count 25 aircraft
3 aircraft shot down several damaged

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Prinz Eugen during "Zauberflöte" (Return of the cruiser after torpedohit in the stern) accompanied by the destroyers Paul Jacobi and Z25 and the torpedoboats T11 and T12, about 50 nautical miles westward from Kristiansand on 17 th May 1942
own CAP by six Me 109
combined attack of more than 30 aircraft
approach of the enemy was directed by aircraft search radar, these radar emissions had been detected above visual limits with passive detectors at ranges above 50 km

1915 radio message attack order for seven enemy squadrons intercepted by B-Dienst
1957 shooting down of a contact holder by CAP
1958 approach of a single aircraft
~2008 large number of low flying aircraft at 40 km visual distance detected, they were approaching in a triple dwars line about 800 m long composition mixed torpedo and bombing aircraft
~2016 distance 20 km split of formation for a pincerattack
speed of attacking aircraft (85m/s - 120m/s)